Jamie Lee Curtis

As the daughter of two movie stars, the down-to-earth Jamie Lee Curtis not only managed to establish herself outside of their shadows, but to cast her own. Rising to fame as the "Scream Queen" of the...
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Feb 25, 2015

Rock Of Ages star Diego Boneta has been cast as one of the male leads in the upcoming murder mystery series Scream Queens, from American Horror Story creator Ryan Murphy. The actor joins a star-studded cast which includes Glee regular Lea Michele, Joe Manganiello, Emma Roberts, Ariana Grande, Abigail Breslin, Nick Jonas and Jamie Lee Curtis.

A musical version of Lindsay Lohan's hit 2008 film Freaky Friday is in the works.
Bosses at Disney Theatrical Productions have teamed up with composer Tom Kitt and lyricist Brian Yorkey, the Tony-winning team behind shows Next to Normal and If/Then, to work on a stage adaptation of the comedy.
Tony-nominated director Christopher Ashley will helm the production, which has been described as a a "musical comedy about a mother and daughter who swap bodies and gain a unique insight into the other's perspective."
The 2008 movie, which also starred Jamie Lee Curtis, was based on the novel of the same name by Mary Rodgers. Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster starred in the first film adaptation of Freaky Friday in 1976.

Singer/actress Ariana Grande is returning to TV in Glee creator Ryan Murphy's new horror comedy series Scream Queens. The Problem hitmaker has landed a recurring role on the show, alongside Jamie Lee Curtis and Emma Roberts.
Glee actress Lea Michele, Abigail Breslin, Keke Palmer and Magic Mike hunk Joe Manganiello have also been added to the cast of the anthology series, which will be set at a college campus which is rocked by a series of murders.
Grande's new acting gig is her first since her teen sitcom Sam & Cat was put on permanent hiatus last year (14) and then cancelled after just one season.

"I was going to pick up food... and I saw a parking spot, I pulled over my car. There were people standing there and I put the car in park and all of a sudden, the car doors open and these two people get in my car. And at first I was like, 'Wow, what the... are you doing?' and the woman looks at me and goes, 'You are Uber (car service)...?' They were from the Czech Republic... and it was just that moment where then they looked at me and then the guy in the back seat looked at me (funnily) and then I think he realised it was me..." Veteran actress Jamie Lee Curtis had an awkward run-in with a pair of tourists in Los Angeles recently after they confused her with a cab driver.

Actors Jamie Lee Curtis and Christopher Guest celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary last year (14) by quietly renewing their vows while on vacation. The Halloween star tied the knot with Guest in December, 1984 and they decided to mark their anniversary a little earlier than planned last summer (Jul14) when they embarked on an historical trek to Missouri, where U.S. explorers Captain Meriwether Lewis and Lieutenant William Clark travelled in the early 1800s, on what has since become known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition.
Curtis explains, "Our anniversary is December 18th and the way we celebrated was we wanted to do a trip - we retraced... a section of the Lewis and Clark trip on the Missouri River... in July.
"We paddled with eight friends of ours... in two-man canoes... and it was just extraordinary, in the White Cliffs section of the Missouri River being out (in) the same, exact stretch that Lewis and Clark saw when they did their trip.
"It just was a perfect way to celebrate."
Curtis reveals the vacation was brought to a fitting end with an unexpected vow renewal ceremony.
She adds, "We had an impromptu redoing of our vows, right at the last (moment)... It was perfect and probably the trip of our lifetime."

Actresses Bette Midler and Julianne Moore are among the stars who have expressed their sorrow and heartbreak after gunmen shot and killed 12 staff members at French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday (07Jan15). At least two suspects stormed the publication's Paris offices and opened fire, gunning down 12 people and leaving four others critically injured in what French President Francois Hollande has branded a "terrorist attack".
Editors of the weekly Charlie Hebdo magazine have previously published controversial cartoons of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed, infuriating devout members of Islam as depictions of religious figures are typically frowned upon. Wednesday's attack is believed to be related to that controversy.
The tragedy has prompted an outpouring of sympathy and support from a slew of celebrities, with Moore taking to Twitter.com to write, "I am heartbroken by the loss of life and attack on freedom of expression", while Midler posts, "There are no words. How many times have we said that in the last few years? Religious war comes to the doors of our homes. I think I have to go light some candles and say some prayers."
French actor Gilles Marini has shared his outrage in a series of posts, which read: "Shame on what happened in France today. Governments around the world TOGETHER must stop those vermin". He then adds, "To all Fanatics, extremist and devil (sic) that believe that God ask them to do that (sic). You're wrong and manipulated."
An angry Moby writes, "islamic extremists are willing to kill innocent people over CARTOONS?? what the f**k? what sort of deity can't handle a cartoon? here are some options if you're offended by a cartoon: a-don't look at it. or b-make a funnier cartoon. killing people is not an option".
Singer Josh Groban tweets, "My heart goes out to the French people and the city of Paris on this horrible day. This is an attack on us all and we are with you", and his actress girlfriend Kat Dennings adds, "Paris! My heart goes out to you and everyone affected by this horrific attack. I love you all."
Others who have tweeted about the shooting include Jamie Lee Curtis, Elijah Wood, Nancy Sinatra, Pete Wentz, OneRepublic, Nicki Minaj and Nicky Hilton.
As WENN went to press, the gunmen were still at large.
Among the dead are Charlie Hebdo founder Georges Wolinski and fellow famed cartoonists Jean 'Cabu' Cabut, Stephane 'Charb' Charbonnier and Bernard 'Tignous' Verlhac.

Veteran actress Jamie Lee Curtis is returning to her horror roots to star in Ryan Murphy's new TV anthology series, Scream Queens. Glee and American Horror Story creator Murphy is set to launch the new horror comedy next autumn (15) and he has now tapped the Halloween icon to headline the first season with Emma Roberts.
The show will be set at a college campus which is rocked by a series of murders.
Scream 4 star Roberts has been working with Murphy since joining the cast of American Horror Story as Maggie Esmerelda in 2013.
Curtis is no stranger to TV either - she recently appeared on New Girl and crime drama NCIS.

In a world where celebrities are constantly bombarded with paparazzi and where every detail of their life is public information, it seems very difficult for many to keep a long-term relationship. These twelve couples are among some of the most stable and enduring celebrity pairs of our time. They defy the odds by sticking through it and often, by keeping their lives as private as they possibly can.
1. Meryl Streep and Don Gummer: 36 years
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Meryl Streep opted out of marrying someone famous and married this friend of her brother. Because Meryl wanted to keep her marriage out of the spotlight, it is still very impressive how little the world knows about him. The couple have four children together, and when Meryl finally did mention him in her 2012 Oscars' acceptance speech it was adorable. "“I’m going to thank Don because when you thank your husband at the end of the speech they play him out with the music and I want him to know that everything I value most in our lives you’ve given me," she said.
2. Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon Osbourne: 32 years
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This couple has had their fair share of ups and downs, but have remained together nonetheless. They met in England when Sharon's father, a music manager and concert producer, managed Black Sabbath, the band Ozzy was the lead singer of. Ozzy was kicked out of the band because of drug abuse and Sharon ended up taking him on as a client. Ozzy continued to struggle with substance abuse and was even arrested for attempting to strangle Sharon while under the influence.
3. Denzel Washington and Pauletta Washington: 31 years
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According to HelloBeautiful, this couple met while co-starring in the film Wilma in 1977. Five years later, they were married and now have four children together. According to the site, Pauletta told Oprah that she fell in love with his personality first. “I thought he was cute, but I fell in love with his spirit. And then I thought, ‘Hmm, not a bad package,'" she said.
4. Jamie Lee Curtis and Christopher Guest: 29 years
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According to People, Jamie first saw Christopher in a magazine when he was an actor in the spoof The is Spinal Tap. She felt an immediate connection to him. "That's why I developed my smirk—which is why, when I looked at Chris's smirk in the picture, I basically saw myself. I saw a kindred spirit," she says of seeing his photo. Jamie gave him her number through an agent and the two became bicoastal lovers soon after. They married in 1984 and have adopted two kids, Annie and Thomas.
5. Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson: 26 years
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The pair originally met while Tom was still married to his college sweetheart on the set of ABC sitcom, Blossoming Buddies, when Rita guest starred for an episode. They didn't get together despite the chemistry they both felt, until after Tom's divorce in 1987. In 1988, they married and have since had two children together. "Literally, a wave of — if love is a feeling, or a cellular thing that happens to your body, it went through me, and that’s pretty much who he is, and how he’s been," Rita said of their relationship to Piers Morgan in 2012.
6. Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick: 26 years
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Interestingly enough, the couple first met when Kyra was 12, at a viewing of a matinee play Kevin starred in. He was 19 at the time and nothing came of the meeting, except Kyra's brother urging her to tell him how much she enjoyed the play. Their relationship started several years later when they worked on the set of Lemon Sky together.
7. Michael J. Fox and Tracy Pollan: 26 years
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This pair is especially inspirational as they have continually supported each other through a chronic illness. They met while working on Family Ties in 1985, but didn't start dating until two years later. Early on in their marriage, Michael was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, but the couple have remained stable. "When we married, we married--and that was it. We were in love then, as we are now, and we planned to stay married," Michael told O Magazine in 2002.
8. John Travolta and Kelly Preston: 23 years
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Despite losing their 16-year-old son, Jett, in 2009, the pair have stayed strong. They first met while filming The Experts, but nothing formed except for a friendship, because Kelly was married at the time. John told Redbook what he thought of her initially: "I had interest in her because even in spite of the trouble that she was having in her marriage, she was willing to stick through tough times with him, which really showed character. I just remember thinking, God, if we're ever single at the same time, I think this is really the one."
9. David Bowie and Iman: 22 years
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According to Huffington Post, the rockstar and supermodel fell in love on a blind date in 1990 and were married two years later. The couple are very quiet about their life and their love story, but do have two children, Zulekha (Iman's child from a previous marriage) and Alexandria. Iman told The Independent that though David knew it was love at first sight, she was a little overwhelmed at first. “I was not ready for a relationship. Definitely, I didn't want to get into a relationship with somebody like him," she said.
10. Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos: 18 years
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This beautiful couple met on the set of All My Children where they were onscreen lovers. According to People, they dated secretly for a year and then eloped in Las Vegas. In fact this photo is from their onscreen marriage, because much of their offscreen romance has been kept secret. "It just happened. The next thing you know, we're married, and then four months later we were pregnant," Consuelos told Redbook. The couple have three children.
11. Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness: 18 years
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The couple first met in 1995 in Melbourne, Australia on the set of the TV drama Correlli. They both felt initial attraction and though Hugh hesitated to propose, he overcame it and they were married a year later. "I decided, I won't ask her to marry me for six months," Jackman told Town and Country magazine. "Then after four months I thought, that's the most ridiculous rule!" The couple have two children, Oscar and Ava. "It gets better every year," Furness said.
12. Sarah Jessica Parker and Mathew Broderick: 17 years
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Another couple that have successfully kept their relationship under wraps, Sarah and Matthew refuse to say much about the secrets to their success. In last year's Harper's Bazaar, Sarah did gush about him shorthly. “There’s also the reality of your life,” she said. “I love Matthew Broderick. Call me crazy, but I love him. We can only be in the marriage we are. We’re very devoted to our family and our lives. I love our life. I love that he’s the father of my children, and it’s because of him that there’s this whole other world that I love.”

Taylor Swift, Lindsay Lohan, Zoe Saldana and Tyson Beckford have led tributes to designer Oscar De La Renta, who died on Monday (20Oct14).
Shortly after news of his death hit the headlines, celebrities lit up social media with fond farewells and kind words. Swift, who heard the news as she began her day in Australia, took to Instagram and wrote, "My all-time favorite designer has passed away. Oscar, it was an honor to wear your creations and to know you. In loving memory."
Lohan posted a quote from the designer, adding, "'Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny - #RIPOscar. A remarkable one of a kind legend." Zoe Saldana writes, "Iconic legendary genius, gone but definitely not forgotten #OscarDeLaRenta. My heart goes out to the De La Renta family." Actor/model Beckford adds, "RIP Oscar, I will truly miss you. 22 yrs (years) of your kind words", and Nicky Hilton tweeted, "What a sad day for the fashion industry. An icon is gone. RIP Oscar de la Renta."
Twitter tributes also poured in from Jamie Lee Curtis, Alyssa Milano, Garcelle Beauvais, Isabelle Fuhrman, Padma Lakshmi and fashion experts Nina Garcia, Zac Posen and Christian Siriano, while actress Rita Wilson added, "A great has left us. #OscarDeLaRenta Thank you for adding such beauty to the world, along with elegance, class and grace." Gloria Estefan, a big fan of de la Renta's work, recalled he was "a big part of 3 of my life's biggest moments", adding, "Made Grammy dress 4 performance and win for 'Mi Tierra', dress I wore to perform for the Pope and my daughter-in-law's wedding dress."

TV series debut as Lt. Barbara Duran in the ABC sitcom, "Operation Petticoat"

Reprised the role of Shelly, now married to Aykroyd's character, for "My Girl 2"

First received top billing in a TV-movie, "Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story"

First TV-movie, "She's in the Army Now"

Once again played Laurie Strode in "Halloween Resurrected"

Summary

As the daughter of two movie stars, the down-to-earth Jamie Lee Curtis not only managed to establish herself outside of their shadows, but to cast her own. Rising to fame as the "Scream Queen" of the late 1970s and early 1980s with "Halloween" (1978), "The Fog" (1980), "Prom Night" (1980), "Terror Train" (1980) and "Halloween II" (1981), Curtis ascended beyond her horror roots with a BAFTA Award-winning turn in "Trading Places" (1983) and with an aerobicized body beyond "Perfect" (1985). Her comic turn in "A Fish Called Wanda" (1988) solidified her adult stardom, and she moved memorably through the action thriller "Blue Steel" (1990), the sitcom "Anything But Love" (ABC, 1989-1992), the coming-of-age romantic comedy "My Girl" (1991), and her dazzling action/comedy turn in the Arnold Schwarzenegger smash "True Lies" (1994). Also famous for her marriage to Christopher Guest - and subsequent inherited English title - and for writing a string of best-selling children's books, Curtis still found time to revisit her roots with "Halloween H20: 20 Years Later" (1998) and to receive career-best reviews starring opposite Lindsay Lohan in "Freaky Friday" (2003). The two-time Golden Globe winner set herself apart from her peers with her freedom from vanity: happy to pose without makeup or retouching for a magazine, to discuss her struggles with addiction, or to allow her hair to go gray gracefully. A striking, fun-loving actress with memorable parts in a variety of genres, Jamie Lee Curtis may have inherited an acting legacy, but she proved to be a star very much of her own making.

Education

Name

University of the Pacific

Choate Rosemary Hall

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Named Woman of the Year (2000) by the Harvard Hasty Pudding Theatricals Club

"A toughness has been left in her face, a hardness that is eerily at odds with her 'perfect' and intelligently revealed body. "Blue Steel" (90, Kathryn Bigelow) was the first film that hinted at her androgynous quality, and it was a picture too conscious of its own style, too devoid of human exploration. But this ambiguity accounts for the Curtis cult, and makes her hard to cast well. ..."

But "Love Letters" (83, Amy Jones) was the best part she has ever had, as a young woman who has an affair with an older man as she begins to realize the secret her recently dead mother kept from her. "Love Letters" is a small gem, and Curtis made herself achingly naked and vulnerable for it. At the same time, there was a hint of limits or guards in her that did not want to put feelings on show. In her best performance so far, she seemed to be letting us see her distrust of acting."---David Thomson's entry on Curtis in "A Biographical Dictionary of Film" (Alfred A. Knopf, 1994).

Curtis has worked as a spokesperson for Equal sweetener, L'eggs pantyhose and Voicestream cellular phones.

"Those unsettling, androgynous good looks atop that stacked body, the comically edgy vibe and the all-over-the-map career defy so many odds."---From "Please Refrain from Sucking" by Stephen Rebello, Movieline, April 1996.

"I tell my agent, 'I don't want you calling a casting director, saying, so, what about Jamie Lee Curtis as the older sister? I mean, I know that as written she's black and 14, but Jamie could do it.' My position with my agent is, 'do not sell me. Just be a good sieve for what comes through. It embarrasses me and humiliates me to think that you're going around pitching me to people that don't get it'."---Jamie Lee Curtis quoted in Movieline, April 1996.

"I'm fairly comfortable about the way work comes to me. When it stops coming, I will stop looking for it. I once believed, quite incorrectly, that something would change when I had success. Absolutely NOTHING changed, except that I got more famous. Your work as an actor will not change your life."---Curtis quoted in Movieline, April 1996.

Curtis was elevated to the title of Lady Haden-Guest in 1996 when her husband, actor-director-screenwriter Christopher Guest, inherited the family title on the death of his father. Their children (both adopted, and one female) cannot inherit the title under England's Peerage Act.

"I was raised in a sort of regular way. And you know what? Second-generation actors are the most ardent professionals. We show up earlier than anybody else, and we're the last ones to leave. That's kind of an unwritten credo ingrained in us, just how you're expected to be."---Curtis on being called 'movie-star royalty' as quoted to E! Online

"I'm not sure where her energy comes from, but it's awe-inspiring. It's the kind of energy that can run a country or change the world."---Jamie's sister Kelly Curtis quoted to People, November 29, 2004.